Viktor speaks awesome Mandarin. Puts me to shame... And it's great to see the special bond between them. Lky is likely the nicest sports celeb around. He makes all of us in sgp so proud! 🇸🇬❤️
LKY has improved by leaps and bounds after all these training with Vik. Hence, I actually think the SBF should start more such programs to help our locals spar with overseas top players. Its lovely to see 2 top players from a totally different background and culture being such buddies, kool!
it is such a surprise to learn that Axelsen could speak such fluent mandarin. Goes to show when a person is determined to learn he would succeed. The beginning of great friendship started as training partner evolving into brotherly competitor and both will flip flop in winning competition but once off the court - badminton brotherhood. Great to see how sports always bring the best of each of us. Same like Rafa Nadal and Roger Federer -both respects each other on and off the court...rarely one sees such good sportsmanship. Hope both will keep challenging each other and push each to excel....thanks Straits Times for bringing us this interview...
He's very smart. He knows where the market for badminton is. He also grew up in the internet age where his idols Lin Dan and Lee Chong Wei dominated the circuit. Now he's been able to connect on a more personal level with some of the giants in the sport as well as opening some more sponsorship opportunities overseas.
@@luf4rall besides being smart his willingness to learn mandarin is very difficult because it is so different from his mother tongue.. being in Europe many of the languages have commonality... Mandarin is totally different so he has to put in lots of effort... it is such a surprise and am glad that Axel spoke so fluently
@@cupidok2768 can light and darkness have fellowship ? . All in the world are common sense stuff. The natural always type the spiritual. Life × death ; good × evil ; GOD × satan ; Love ❤️ × hate . Who or which is the greater , even a fool knows !. Common sense 👏.
These players are both amazing They played under of their own expensive style on how to play on court Love watching hopefully Kento Momoto of Japan and Jonathan Christie of Indonesia
@@furumagica2177 not really malaysians, the national language in malaysia is malay. malaysians typically speak in their mother toungue languages. in the more developed areas in malaysia, people do speak english but definitely the percentage of people in the country who speak english as their first language is much higher in Singapore than Malaysia
That's hilarious considering English is compulsory in Singapore and Malaysia in school. We are supposed to speak English well unless one is uneducated, older folks, some kampong malays or something.
Can you speak your national language? It's a shame when people make mandarin is such an important language as most Malaysian born Chinese can't even speak good malay and English anymore. Hearing Loh Kean yew English with those hockien accent reminds me of Mark Lee znd Jack neo speaking Singlish.